Only a lab that CPSC has accepted for that exact safety rule can back your CPC. A lab that's only accredited, or accepted for other rules, doesn't count, and a CPC resting on it isn't valid.
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The law requires every children's product to be tested by a third-party lab CPSC has accepted, for each children's safety rule that applies. The CPC names that lab. If CPSC hadn't accepted it, the CPC falls short, however good the testing was. It's one of the quiet reasons a finished-looking CPC gets rejected.
First, the lab has to be accredited to ISO/IEC 17025 by an accreditation body in the ILAC-MRA (an international agreement among accreditation bodies), for each CPSC rule it wants to test. Then CPSC decides whether to accept it for that rule. A lab can be fully accredited and still not accepted. CPSC has accepted more than 600 labs worldwide.
Not always. CPSC accepts labs rule by rule, so a lab may be accepted for some rules and not others. Picture a painted wooden toy for toddlers: the lab that tests the paint for lead also has to be accepted for the small-parts rule, or a second lab does that test.
They all point to the same program. The CPSIA is the law, and CPSC runs it. CPSC calls them CPSC-accepted labs, and that's the term on its public lab list. Whatever a lab calls itself, the check is the same.
Search the lab's name on CPSC's public lab list and look for the exact rule your product is certified to. A CPC that doesn't name its lab, or names one that isn't on the list for that rule, looks complete until someone checks.
No. The rule is only for children's products and their CPC. A general-use product's GCC can rest on your own testing or a reasonable testing program. So the first question is whether your product is a children's product.
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This report is an automated, informational screening tool only. Tiana & Co. is not a licensed customs broker and does not conduct customs business. This report does not constitute legal advice, a compliance determination, or a certification of admissibility for any supplier, product, or shipment.
Verdicts in this report are produced by deterministic code, not by a language model. The explanatory paragraph accompanying each check is model-generated and checked against the cited sources before delivery. No part of this report is reviewed by a person before it is issued, so every material finding and citation should be confirmed against the underlying government source before it is relied on.
This report reflects data available as of the report date. The OFAC SDN and Consolidated lists, the other U.S. Consolidated Screening List constituents, the UFLPA Entity List, CBP withhold release orders, CPSC's eFiling list, and regulatory guidance are updated frequently and without prior notice. Users should re-screen periodically and consult qualified counsel for compliance decisions.
Name-similarity results do not establish or rule out the identity of any company. Where multiple similarly named records exist, none should be treated as confirmed without independent verification against the primary government source.
This tool is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a substitute for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, or any other government agency. No warranty is made as to the accuracy, completeness, or currency of any finding.
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